1. Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was a Greek-American physicist.
19 Facts About Nicholas Metropolis
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Nicholas Metropolis arrived in Los Alamos in April 1943, as a member of the original staff of fifty scientists.
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Nicholas Metropolis came back to Los Alamos in 1948 to lead the group in the Theoretical Division that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 that was modeled on the IAS machine, and the MANIAC II in 1957.
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Nicolas Nicholas Metropolis was born on June 11,1915, in Chicago, US.
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Nicholas Metropolis received his BSc and PhD in chemical physics at the University of Chicago.
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At Los Alamos Nicholas Metropolis worked together with Richard Feynman on "electromechanical devices used for hand computations".
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Nicholas Metropolis came back to Los Alamos in 1948 to lead the group in the theoretical division that designed and built the MANIAC I computer in 1952 that was modeled on the IAS machine, and the MANIAC II in 1957.
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At Los Alamos in the late 1940s and early 1950s a group of researchers led by Nicholas Metropolis, including John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam, developed the Monte Carlo method.
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Nicholas Metropolis was deeply involved in the very first use of the Monte Carlo method, rewiring the ENIAC computer to perform simulations of a nuclear core in 1948.
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In 1953 Nicholas Metropolis was credited as a co-author of a paper entitled Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines.
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In recent years a controversy has arisen as to whether Nicholas Metropolis actually made significant contributions to the Equation of State Calculations paper.
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Nicholas Metropolis was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society.
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Nicholas Metropolis was awarded the Pioneer Medal by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and was a fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Nicholas Metropolis played the part of a scientist in the Woody Allen film Husbands and Wives.
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Nicholas Metropolis had a son, Christopher, and two daughters, Penelope and Katharine.
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Nicholas Metropolis was an avid skier and tennis player until his mid-seventies.
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Nicholas Metropolis died at a nursing home in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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Nicholas Metropolis then bought his book for five dollars and pasted the other five inside the cover as a symbol of his victory.
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Nicholas Metropolis has an Erdos number of 2 and he enabled Richard Feynman to have an Erdos number of 3.